Quotes about years
years water environmental
Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years. Hal Borland
years next splitting
The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up. Greta Scacchi
years play actresses
Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.
years two government
What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years? Greta Van Susteren
years silence world
I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine. Gordon Getty
years discovery imagination
Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now face the corresponding peak in production in 2005. Gordon Campbell
years discipline together
Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability Gordon Brown
years britain interest
Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.
years two conservative
Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history
years water people
...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.
years two-year-olds singing
I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that. Glen Campbell
years government ira
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. Gerry Adams
years looks faces
I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles. Geri Halliwell
years icons america
'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon. Geraldine Brooks
years authorship written
Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.] Horace
years wind pyramids
I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion. [Lat., Exegi monumentum aera perennius Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum. Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam.]
years brooklyn raised
I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years. Herbie Mann
years problem century
Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion. Herman Kahn
years nuclear use
My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained.
years playing-jazz jazz
I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since. Herbie Hancock
years differences decision
I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians to reach beyond what they know, go into unknown territory and explore. It's made a difference to me and the decisions that I've made over the years about how to approach a project in this music.
years together esp
I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.
years numbers america
In my case, that number is 45. And given that I was born on December 13, 1945 my conception, gestation, and birth all occurred within that year that number has been with me, literally, for all my life, to date. The number 45 keeps on popping up as I go about the business of getting elected you guessed it as the forty-fifth president of the United States of America. Herman Cain
years expression human-nature
The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature. Herman Melville
years long sailing
Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
years want employee
Businesses want to offer solid, affordable health insurance to their employees, but it is getting harder to find every year. Herb Kohl
years self payment
For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it. Henry David Thoreau
years christ reincarnation
I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.
years silence three
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
years here-i-am four
Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There is such an interval between my ideal and the actual in many circumstances that I may say I am unborn.
years perspective mountain
The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.
years long people
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years. Gyorgy Ligeti
years people records
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. H. L. Mencken